22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 28,1971
USDA Sets Up
Secretary of Agriculture Clif
ford M. Hardin has announced
establishment of a special unit
within the U.S. Department of
Agriculture to handle questions
involving President Nixon’s
wage-price freeze action.
Hardin said the unit was be
ing established primarily to
answer questions from agri
Ag Days to Show Research
boil and crop scientists of
Pennsylvania State University
will exhibit and discuss their re
search at the Rock Springs Agri
cultural Research Center during
Agricultural Progress Days to
In held August 31 to Siplcmbu
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Located three miles west of
Pine Grove Mills on Route 45,
Rock Springs is the principal
site for research on field crops,
weed control, and studies of soil
fertility and management Lab
oratory studies and special-pur
pose plot work are earned out
on the University Park campus
The three-day agronomy pro
giam will include exhibits of
commercial corn and grain sor
ghum varieties This will show
18 commercially-developed grain
sorghum hybrids and 61 com
mercially-developed corn hy
brids all provided' by seeds
men participating in Agricultural
Pi ogress Days
An unusual field crops garden
will feature species common to
Pennsylvania as well as species
unfamiliar to most people The
garden will include forage
legumes and grasses, oil crops,
fiber crops, drug crops, and
grain crops.
A corn wheel, in which corn
hybrids are displayed at varying
planting rates, will indicate the
optimum seeding rates per acre
lor top yields among competing
varieties.
During the three days, wagons
will take visitors on tours of
the various research plots
Shuttle buses will operate be
tween the parking area and the
Agronomy Farm.
Visitors to the Agronomy Re
search Farm will be able to take
two wagon tours Tour Number
1 will show (1) Studies on the
perennial forage
breeding of
grasses, (2) research by
scientists of the Regional Pasture
Research Laboratory of the U S
Department of Agriculture, (3)
alfalfa and clover breeding, (4)
crownvetch breeding and man
agement, (5) nitrate movement
in the soil, (6) cropping systems,
(7) corn breeding and genetics.
and (8) grain sorghums and soy-
beans
Tour Number 2 will feature
(1) a soil pit showing a profile
of Hagerstown silt loam, (2)
forage crops management, (3)
studies of Southern corn leaf
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Serve You
If your organization didn’t
make our farm calendar this
week, it’s not because we
don’t like you or your or
ganization.
We may have missed it in
the rush. Or maybe you for
got to tell us.
Either way, we’d like to
extend our farm community
service to you.
To get on .the farm Calen
dar, remind us by calling
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writing to Lancaster Farm
ing, 22 E. Main St., Lititz,
Pa. 17543. And help us serve
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Price Freeze Information Office
business interests and farmers
about how the President’s ac
tion affects the price of specific
agricultural products. The unit
will provide guidance on ques
tions that cannot be answered
by the regional information of-
fices being established by the
Office of Emergency Prepared
ness, he indicated.
Jerome B. Siebert, on assign-
blight, (4) analysis of Garden
Symphylan damage, (5) no
tillage corn planting, (6) control
of annual weeds in corn, (7)
animal waste utilization, and (8)
control of yellow nutsedge or
nutgrass in corn.
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West Willow
Formers Assn., Inc.
ment to the Secretary of Agri
culture, will be in charge of the
wage-price unit, the Secretary
said Telephone number for the
unit, on area code 202, is 388-
4623.
In establishing the new unit,
the Secretary said all specific
announcements about pricing
rules and regulations will be
announced by the Office of
Emergency Preparedness
(OEP) rather than by indivi
dual Federal Departments. The
wage-price unit within the De
partment will simply provide
additional clarification and
guidance on these official an
nouncements, the Secretary
said.
In addition, when the wage
price freeze creates special
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problems for a commodity, the
unit will consider facts present
ed by agri-business groups and,
where needed, will recommend
corrective actions to the Presi
dent’s Cost of Living Council,
which provides policy guidance
to OEP on pricing matters, the
Secretary said.
The Secretary said that no
“list” presently exists of pro
ducts that are included or ex
empt from’the wage-price con
trols. He said the only “lists”
that will be developed will be
those of items that are exempt
from controls, and these will be
announced by OEP as the deter
minations are made. Other
items will be considered con
trolled, he said.
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In further explaining what
constitutes “raw agricultural
products,” which are exempt
from controls, Secretary Hardin
said a product is considered
raw if it sold to the public in
the form which it normally
leaves the producer. Oranges,
he said, would be exempt in
their natural form, but the
price would be controlled if the
orange was processed into can
ned juice or frozen concentrate.
Eggs or lettuce would be con
sidered raw if sold packaged in
the form in which they are
normally available in grocery
stores. But if the eggs were
liquid, frozen, or dried, they
would be considered processed,
he said.
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